Edward McCartan

Edward McCartan was an American sculptor who studied at the Pratt Institute, as well as the Art Students League of New York, and then in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts for three years. He returned to the United States in 1910 and opened a studio in New York a few years later. In 1914, he became the Director of the sculpture department of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City.

Two years later, McCartan received the George D. Widener gold medal. During World War II, he was appointed director of the Rinehart School of Sculpture in Baltimore. His main subjects were elegant nude sculptures, sculptures of sports people and animals in decorative bronze mostly in Greek mythological style. They show influences from Rodin, and later also from Frederick MacMonnies. He also created public monuments and architectural projects.

In 1923 he made his most famous figure, the 60 cm high bronze Diana. It is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Brookgreen Gardens. There is also a version in white marble. McCartan, however, created a number of different statues with the character of Diana. To distinguish them, this one is usually referred to as Diana with a hound.